Duplicating-register.



6;]. BROWN. DUPLICATING REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 27. 1917.

Patented me. 11, 191?.

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DUFLICATING REGISTER. APPUCATION FILED Amer. 1917'.

.Patanted m 11,1917.

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DUPLVGATING REGISTER.

APPLICATION mm APR. 27. um.

Patented Dec" 11,1911

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Patented Dec 11,1917.

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DUPLICATING REGISTER.

APPLICATlON FILED APR. 27- 198?.

J fig I 15 (iii OFFTC CLARENCE J". BROWN, 015 CLEVELAND, OHIO.

DUPLICATING-REG-ISTER.

Application filed April 27, 1917.

To all "who m, it may concern.

lie it known that l, Omens on J. BRowN, a citizen of the United States, resident of (llevelarul, county of Uuyahoga, and State of (lhio, have invented new and useful lnr provements in Duplicatirig-Registers, of which the following is a specification, the principle of the invention being herein explained, and the best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

My invention relates to improvements in registers and particularly registers utilized for making duplicate copies of such instruments as bills of lading. More particularly, my .il'nprovenrents relate to imln'oved means for alining all the copies of the instruments thus to be made, moving the same uniformly when they are to be detached, n'eventing them from slipping, and providing means whereby all the mechanism is set and locked before the papers will. feed forward.

The annexed drawings and the following description set forth in detail certain means embodying my invention, the disclosed means, however, constituting but one of various mechanical forms in which the principle of the invention may be employed.

In said annexed drawings:

Figure 1 represents a plan view of my improved register, a small part of the means for tearing oil completed bills being broken away; Fig. 2 represents a transverse vertical section taken in the plane indicated by the lines H-lll, Fig. 7, and showing the relative disposition of the several parts of the mechanism just after a set of bills of lading have been detached and before the sliding plate has been moved back to its rear position; Fig. 3 represents a transverse vertical section taken in the plane indicated by the lines lll llll, Fig. 1, showing the relative disposition of the several parts after the gripping and holding jaws have been locked preparatory to feeding forward the papers and detaching the same; Fig. 4: represents a longitudinal vertical section taken in the plane indicated by the lines lV-llV, Fig. 1, with the several. parts of the machine in the position shown in Fig. 3; Fig. 5 represents a broken vertical longitudinal section taken in the plane in which Fig. lis taken, but showing the relative disposition of the parts after the bills of lading have been fed for ward. and detached and while the bill carry-i Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 11, 1917..

Serial No. 16-l,907.

ing jaws and slide plate are still in their outermost positions; Fig. (i represents a broken vertical transverse section taken in the plane indicated by the line V IV 11, Fig. .1-; Fig. 7 represents a partial plan view .and partial horizontal section, showing the relative disposition of the parts when in the same position as illustrated in Fig. 2; Fig. 8 represents an enlarged broken side elevation taken from the plane of the lines VHTVTH, Fig. 2; Fig. 9 represents an e11- larged section and end elevation of a fragmentary portion of the machine taken in the plane indicated by the lines TEL-Th1, Fig. 2; Figs. 10 and 11 represent enlarged broken longitudinal sections with the main frame and feeding members relatively disposed as in Fig. at, and with the front jaw and connected parts in gripping and loose positions, respectively; Fig. 12 represents a vertical transverse section taken in the plane indicated by the lines XH XIT, Fig. at, with some front parts ren'ioved in order to disclose more clearly the guides for a sliding feed plate.

Describing my improved duplicating register in detail. and with reference to the accompanying drawings, l have provided a suitable housing structure and main frame 1 in the side members of which are mounted four lower rollers :2 upon the journal surfaces 3 of pivot pins 3 contained in housing members 4-. Eiaid pivot pins 3 are provided with outer head members and inner abutment members 3, Fig. 2, springs 5 surrounding the pins 3 and nm-mally pressing upon the abutment members 3" which have the said journal surfaces 3 to hold said surfaces firmly in and against the ends of the rollers 2. Outer flange members 4; are also provided, s shown. There is also provided an upper rear large roller 6 with flanges 6, said roller being mounted upon journal surfaces 6 of pins 6" mounted in the main frame 1. Said roller (3 replaces the plurality of small rollers previously utilized for the same purpose in this class of mechanisms. The lower rollers 2 are each loaded with a roll of paper 7, the paper from the several. rollers all. passing under and then over the large upper roller 6, as plainly shown in Fig. 41-, and forwardly over the machine, in the manner hereinafter fully de scribed. it will be apynurent that the provision of the spriit-ig mounted pivot pins 3 llllil for the purpose of enabling such pins to be pulled by means of the head members 3 out of contact with the rollers 2 in order that fresh rolls of paper may be mounted upon said rollers. \V hen the fresh .rolls are being mounted, the h aid members 5 are retained in their outermost positions by means of short keys 3 contacting against the flanges 1, there being provided key-ways -1 Fig. i), in said flanges, and the pins 3 being turned slightly to carry said keys 3 out of line with said key-ways 4 when the pins 8 are pulled outwardly far enough to release the short keys 3 from the key-ways 4 I shall now describe the several main features of my improved register severally in detail and such main features include a face plate, feeding means, gripping means, alining means, and means utilized for tearing oft completed bills of lading.

The plate upon which the several bill blanks rest when the desired data is being written upon them is represented at S, the same being styled a face plate or main sup port upon which the effective work of filling in the blanks is accomplished. Said face plate 8 is secured to the main frame 1 by screws 8, as plainly shown in Fig. 1.

The feeding means for the completed bills of lading consist in a gear member 9 mounted on a shaft 10 supported in the side members of the frame 1 and having a handle 11 extending exteriorly of the housing 1, as plainly shown in Fig. 12. Secured to the under surface of the face plate 8 are members 12, Fig. 12, provided with guiding surfaces 12 within which is adapted to slide longitudinally of said face plate a feed plate 13 provided with gripping or aw members upon its front and rear ends, as will be hereinafter fully described. There is provided under the feed plate 13 a rack 1% adapted to engage with the gear member 9 and supported by said member and other means 19 l1ereinafter fully described. The relative sizes of the several parts just described is such thatone turn of the handle 11 is adapted to effect the entire sliding movement in one direction of the feed plate 13.

The gripping means or jaw members which will now be described in detail are designed to be set and locked before the bills of lading will be fed forward in order that all of the bills will be fed uniformly and not slip and will remain in proper relative positions so that the memoranda which is written upon the upper or original bill will be transferred to the lower duplicated bills in exactly the same places upon said bills that it is written upon the upper or original bill, so that numbers, weights, dates and other important data will not appear upon the duplicates out of line or in spaces other than th se pro ided for the particular k nd of data which is written upon the original. The jaw members mentioned consist in gripping upper and lower jaws 33 aml 23; disposed upon the front cud of the fccd plate l2) and a bridge member if disposed upon the rear end of said fccd plate 121 transversely of the machine and upon the respective ends of which bridge pivot members I? are adapted to be clamped. Said bridge In is provided with depending lateral members 16 having outwardly extending slotted cylindrical lugs 10- in which depending members 17 of clamps 17 are adapted to be pivoted. Said clamps ii are norn'ially held in loose or unclamped position by a spring 18 attached at its ends to depending members 17 respectively. Depending from the under surface of bridge 1c are two lugs '16 in which are respectively pivoted two rocking arms 19 of the design shown plainly in Figs. 2 and The outer surface of the outer ends 19' of these arms are of a rounded form and slidably contact with depending members 17. the depending members in of bridge 16 being slotted to allow this contact, as plainly shown in Fig. S. The outer surface of the inner ends 19 of the rocking arms 19 are of a beveled form and contact, respectively, with two arms 20 pivoted at their inner ends to the sides of the rack l-l, Fig. 8, said arms 20 being of definitely increasing depth toward their outcr ends so as to be of radically greater size at such outer ends, as shown in Figs. land 8. The rocking arms 19 thus provide a rear support for the rack 11 previously dcscribcd as supported at the front by gear men'ibcr 5). From the foregoing description it is apparent that the forward movement. of the rack 14C relatively to the bridge 16 will cause the rocking arms 19 to press their outer ends in forcibly against the pivoted depending members 17 and thus cause the clamps 17 to contact tightly with the bridge 16. This will effecta clamping action upon the paper fed .up over the large roller 6 inasmuch as said paper is carried over the bridge 16 and under the clamps 17. This relative movemcnt of the rack 14 and the bridge 16 is effected by means hereinafter fully described. Attention, however, will now be directed, with regard to this relative movement, to the slots 21 provided in the sides of the rack 14-, Fig,

plate 23, the rear portion 23 of which is somewhat narrower than the feed plate 13 and the front portion of which is a wider ill wardly the hips Leas es yoke-shaped member provided with the yoke arms T he face plate is cut away, as at 8 l igv 1, to receive the wide part of the plate 23, when the parts are relatively disposed as shown in Fig. l. Secured to the under side of the forward end of the yoke arms are two lugs 9;1: within which is secured a transverse pin intersecting and supporting two arms 26 pivotally mounted on said pin and carrying a depending plate 27 having an upper angular lip 2i. Clhere is also provided a depending lug; 28 upon the forward end of the rack Ll to which is pivoted a forwardly extending bar 29 adapted to intersect a groove 27 in the depending plate 2? and carryinga lug; 30 connected to the plate 27 by a spring 31. The tension of said spring 31 prevents the forward end of the bar 29 from escaping; from the groove 27 in the plate 27.

Referring now in detail to the jaw members 2-32 and hereinbefore generally mentioned, it will be noted that the lower jaw member 232 is secured transversely of the short plate 23 upon the wide portion thereof, a lower member 33 of the upper jaw member being; secured to a pin ill, said pin being pivoted in lugs 35 secured to the upper surface of the yoke arms 23 Formed in the forward end of the rack l-l, on each side thereof, are grooves 36 receiving depending lugs 37 secured to the under surface of the sliding member 13, a pin 38 extendinglaterally of the rack 14: at the forward ends of said grooves 36 and contacting with lugs 37 to move the plate 18 when the rack 14: is moved rearwardly. The relative longitudinal movements of the rack M- and the bridge 16, hereinbefore generally mentioned, is edected both before the sliding plate 13 starts to move forwardly and before it starts to move rearwardly and this loose motion or relative longitudinal movement will now be explained. The loose motion forward takes place before the shallow rear portions of the grooves 21 in the rear end of the rack 14 contact with the lugs 22, the arrai'igement being such that whenever the sliding plate 13 ceases a rearward movement, the lugs 22 are disposed in the for ard ends of the grooves 21. The loose motion rearwardly is effected by reason of the fact that whenever the sliding plate 13 stops moving for- 7 are disposed in the rear ends of the grooves 36 so that the rack 14. must be moved some distance to the rear before the pin 38 contacts with said lugs 37 to move the sliding: plate 13 rcarwardly. lluring the loose motion forwardly, the arms .20 force the inner ends 19 of the rocking arms 19 downwardly, thus pressing thcouter ends 19 out tightly against the depending arms 17 of the clamps 17, causing the latter to contact tightly with the upper surface of the bridge 16 and firmly hold the blanks. it will be noted that this action takes place before the slidingmember 13 moves forwi'irdly, if. (2., before the bills of hiding can be carried forward. also during this loose motion forwardly, the bar 29 is fed forwardly by the rack 14 and the lug 80 upon said bar presses against the rearward face of the depending plate 27 which causes the lip 27 thereof to tilt upwardly strongly against the upper jaw member 33 musing said jaw member by reason of its pivotal mounting to bite down tightly upon the lower jaw member 32, thus firmly gripping the forward end of the blanks which, after the preceding blanks had been detached in the manner hereinafter fully described, are in a position to be contained between said jaw members 3:2 and 88. During; the loose motion baclnvard, the bar 29 is drawn rearwardly, pulling the bottom of the depending member 527 rearward ly and consequently lowering: the lip 27 and allowing the upper jaw member 33 to fall forwardly upon said lip, thus loosening the aw members 32 and A bent spring) member 39 with a depressed portion 39 and an outer raised portion 3 2 Figs. 5 and 7, is secured to the face plate 8 laterally of the sliding; plate 13 and forwardly of one of the members 12. The sliding; plate 13 will not feed forward until the jaws 32 and 33 have secured a very tight hold upon the bills of ladingr and because the tension of the spring member 89 must be overcome before said jaw members can feed forward, by reason of the fact that the pin extends laterally from lugi 35 on one side of the machine and is disposed within the depressed portion 39 of the spring member E39 when the jaw members 32 and 33 and the face plate 8 are disposed contiguously to each other, as shown in F 1: and 10.

The aiming; means consist of wings 40 disposed adjacently to the inner lateral surfaces of the, frame 1 and hinged at their bottom edges to members 4l-1 mounted in said frame 1. Fiaid wings 40 are normally held out of contact with the rollers F2, and the paper 7 by the springs 42 attached at one end to the frame 1, and secured at the other end one at each upper corner of the wings 40. th'dinarily the wings 2:0 are allowed under the tension of the spring- -12 to be pulled into a substantially vertical position, out of cmitact with the rollers 2 and the paper 7. l l hen the sliding plate '13 reaches its extreme outer position and the brh it? is in the position shown in lin". i" the depending: portions 16 of the bridge strike the beveled menil iers secured to the forward outer surfaces of the wings 4:0 by the bolts passing through the grooves 51,

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Fig. 4, and said members 50 force the upper parts of the wings 4O inwardly, causing said wings to stop the rotation of the rollers 2 and hold them tight until the slide plate is moved rearwardly, thus alining the four sheets of the blanks for the next set of bills.

The means for tearing off the complete bills consist in a member 43 pivoted by means of an arm 43 upon a pin 43 and secured by another arm 43 to a pin 44, the latter pin being pivotally mounted in the frame 1 and in a bracket 45 secured to the under surface of the face plate 8. Secured to the plate 23 is a cam member 46 and secured to the ro tatable pin 44 is an arm 47 carrying at its forward end a roller 48. A spring 49 normally holds the arm 47 in its lowermost position and hence the member 43 in the inclined position shown in Fig. 5. This latter position is the position when the forward edge of the member 48 alines closely with the forward edge of the face plate 8, the two edges thus providing a cutting edge along which the bills of lading which have been pulled forwardly over the face plate 8 by the jaws 82 and can be torn off. In order to remove said member 43 out of the way so that the subsequent bills can be pulled forward, it is apparent that as the sliding plate 13 is pulled rearwardly the cam member 46 will pass in under the roller 48 raising the same and consequently tilting the arm 47 and with it the rotatable pin 44 which, through the arm 43 of the member 43, will raise the latter into the position shown in Fig. 10.

\Vhat I claim is:

1. In duplicating registers, the combination of a main frame adapted to support duplicate blanks; alining means mounted therein adjacently to the blanks; means adapted to feed forward the duplicate blanks for successive detachments of the sets of completed bills; and means adapted to efiect an alining movement of said alining means upon the duplicate blanks just previously to the end of each forward feeding movement.

2. In duplicating registers, the combination of a main frame adapted to support a plurality of blank-carrying spools; alining means mounted therein adjacently to the ends of said spools; means adapted to feed forwardly the duplicate blanks for successive detachment of the sets of completed bills; and means adapted to effect an alining movement of said alining means upon the blank-carrying spools between each two successive detachments of completed bills.

3. In duplicating registers, the combination of a main frame adapted rotatably to support a'plurality of blank-carrying spools; alining means mounted therein adj acently to the ends of said spools; means adapted to feed forwardly duplicate blanks for successive detachment of the sets of con'lpleted bills; and means adapted to effect an alining movement of said alining means upon the duplicate blanks between each two successive detachments of completed bills. said movement of said alining means also bringing the latter into engagement with said spools to effect the stopping of the rotation of the latter.

4. In duplicating registers, the combination of a main frame adapted to support duplicate blanks; means for feeding forward successively for detachment the successive sets of completed bills; and means for locking rigidly relatively to each other the set of con'lpleted bills and the following set of blank bills before said feeding means become effective.

5. In duplicating registers, the combination of a main frame adapted to support duplicate blanks; a face plate upon which the blanks are filled into completed bills; a feed plate adapted to be reciprocated longitudinally of said face plate and provided with means adapted to grip and firmly hold relatively to each other the several completed bills; means for effecting the reciprocation of said feed plate; means for locking rigidly relatively to each other the set of completed bills and the following set of blank bills; means for releasing the duplicate blanks from said locking means during the rearward movement of said feed plate; and means for setting and locking said locking and gripping means prior to the forward I movement of said feed plate.

6. In duplicating registers, the combination of a main frame adapted to support du plicate blanks; alining means mounted there in adjacently to the blanks; a face plate upon which the blanks are filled into completed bills; a feed plate adapted to be reciprocated longitudinally of said face plate and provided with means adapted to grip and firmly hold relatively to each other the several completed bills: means for effecting the reciprocation of said feed plate: means for locking rigidly relatively to each other the set of completed bills and the following set of blank bills; means for setting and locking said locking and gripping means prior to the forward movement of said feed plate; and means adapted to effect an alining movement of said alining means upon the duplicate blanks between each. two successive detachments of completed bills.

7. In apparatus of the character described, the combination of a face plate upon which blanks are filled into completed bills; a feed plate adapted to be reciprocated longitudinally of said face plate and provided with means adapted to grip and firmly hold relatively to each other the several completed bills; means for effecting the reciprocation :naaaeee of said feed plate; means for locking rigidly relatively to each other the set of completed bills and the following set of blank bills, said reciprocating means being adapted to lock and unlock said gripping and said locking means, an amount of loose movement being provided between said feed plate and its reciprocating means during which movement the latter lock and unlock said gripping means and said locking means.

8. ln apparatus of the character described the combination of a face plate upon which blanks are filled into completed bills; a feed plate adapted to be reciprocated longitudinally of said face plate and provided with means adapted to grip and firmly hold. relatively to each other the several completed bills; means for elfecting the reciprocation of said face plate; means for locking rigidly relatively to each other the set of completed bills and the following set of blank bills, said reciprocating means being adapted to lock and unlock said gripping means and said locking means, the connection between said feed plate and its reciprocating means being such that reversal of the movement of said means in either direction effects the locking or unlocking of said gripping and said locking means prior to the commencement of the movement of said feed plate.

9. in duplicating registers, the combination of a main frame adapted to support duplicate blanks; means for feeding forward successively for detachment the successive sets of completed bills; means for grip iing the completed bills; means for locking rigidly relatively to each other the set of completed bills and the following set of blank billsand. means for setting and unfastcning simultaneously said gripping means and said locking means.

10. in duplicating registers, the combination of a main frame adapted to support duplicate blanks; means for feeding forward successively for detachment the successive sets of connileted bills; means for retracting said feeding means; means for gripping the completed bills; means for locking rigidly relatively to each other the set of completed bills and the following set of blank bills; and means for simultaneously setting said gripping means and locking means (hiring the forward movement of said feeding means and sinniltaneously unfastening the same during the retracting movement of said feeding means.

11. lln duplicating registers the combination of a main frame adapted to support duplicate blanks; means for feeding forward successively for detachment the successive sets of completed bills; means for gripping the completed bills; means for locking rigidly relatively to each other the set of completed bills and the following set of blank bills; means for setting and unfastcning sin'niltaueously said gripping means and said locking means; and common. means for actuating said feeding means, and said setting and unfastcning means.

12. in duplicating registers, the combination of a main frame adapted to support duplicate blanks; a face plate upon which the blanks are tilled into completed bills; a feed plate adapted to be rcci n'ocated longitudinally of said face plate; means for gripping the completed bills; means for locking rigidly relatively to each other the set of completed bills and the following set of blank bills said gripping mean, and said locking means both being mounted upon said feed plate; and means for elljecting the rcciprocati on of said feed plate.

l2). lln duplicating registers, the combination of a main frame adapted to support duplicate blanks; means adapted to feed forward the duplicate blanks for successive detachment of the sets of completed bills; means for gripping and firmly holding relatively to each other the several completed bills and resilient means tending to prevent the forward movement of said feeding means, said resilient means acting upon said gripping means to force the latter into firm engagement with said completed bills.

ln duplicating registers the combination of a main frame adapted to support duplicate blanks; means adapted to convey fornnrdly the duplicate blanks for successive dctaclnnent of the sets of completed bills; means tending to actuate said conveying means; means actuated by said lastnamed means for gripping and firmly holding relatively to each other the, several completed bills; and a spring momentarily preventing the forward. movement of said conveying means whereby the firm engagement of said grnJping means with the bills is assured.

5. it. reciprocating elen'ient in articles of the class described comprising a supporting plate; a rack secured thereto and relatively movable to a limited extent; means for effecting said relative movement; a shaft and a pinion secured thereto meshing with said rack; a handle for turning said shaft; gripping n'icans and locking means both mounted on said plate; means for setting and unfastening said gripping means; and means for setting and unfastcnin g said locking means; and means connecting said rack and said two setting and unfastening means, respectively, for actuating the latter during said limited relative movement of said rack.

16. it rcciprocatin g feeding element in articles of the class described comprising, a supporting plate; a rack secured thereto and relatively movable to a limited extent, said relative movement occurring at the be Eli Lilli];

Illltd ginning of each forward and rearward movement of said rack; means for effecting said relative movement; a shaft and a pinion secured thereto meshing with said rack; a handle for turning said shaft; gripping means mounted on the forward end of said plate; locking means mounted on the rear end of said plate; means connecting said 'aek and said gripping means and means connecting said rack and said locking means in to cause said gripping means and locking means simultaneously to set during each relative forward movement of said rack and to unfasten during each relative rearward movement of the same.

Signed by me this 25 day of April, 1917.

CLARENCE J. BROlVNL Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. 0. 

